Github integration with Fitbit Studio

[Cmspooner]

It would be helpful to new and experienced developers to include github integration with fitbit studio. This would allow new devs to download sample projects and try them out and experienced devs to share their work and work collaboratively. Fitbit already has their sample code on github and requests code questions be posted with links to github gists, so they are already working with the github platform.

[SunsetRunner]

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[Pietero]

I want to add 2 benefits of the github integration

Collaborate on app development! I'm running an Open Source project and it is hard to collaborate.

Second thing is... I develop some javascript and svg locally because it is faster. After changes, I would like to commit to the repo instead of copy pasting the whole file.

[s00500]

This feature is a MUST if you want more people actively developing in the cloud environment. A thing to add would be the feature to change to custom remotes so one could use a selfhosted git service like gitlab or gogs

[erik.ruser]

I concur with s00500. Not everybody uses github.com as their remote. 

[Cmspooner]

Oh definitely erik.ruser!

[erik.ruser]

Of course, the most obvious reason for VCS integration that everyone is overlooking, is of course version control. If you have an awesome app under development, and want to add a new feature, but half way through adding that feature you realize you broke everything and need to start over, without VCS you have no way of reverting to the last stable version and you are kind of screwed. This is an obvious concept (or should be) for everyone who does software development, but I had no idea how much I would miss that capability when I started writing fitbit apps.  

[draeath]

I want to note that you may be better served using the CLI dev tools, instead of fitbit-studio. Since this takes the entire process* local, you can use whatever VCS and IDE you want.

* well not entirely local, since it drives the developer bridge